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Jesús Vélez Santiago
Data Scientist | Data Analyst | Genomic Scientist
I love analyzing and visualizing data to improve our understanding of our surroundings. Besides, I am fascinated by software development and love contributing to the community by creating packages and courses. I am known for being a passionate, curious person, and I am always open to new challenges. Do you have any challenges? Good! Let’s do it. Let’s be problem solvers.
Professional Experience
Learning Experience Data Analyst
Remote work
2022
- Dashboard definition and evaluation for monitoring crucial metrics and understanding the root causes of change.
- Extraction, transformation and loading of data for reliable analytics.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to quantify the impact of new product features and their interaction with the user.
- Communication of data-driven insights; going from observations to useful insights.
Bioinformatics specialist
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
San Diego, United States
2021
- Creation of pipelines for cleaning and analyzing massive single-cell data sets
- Creation of internal software packages in R that facilitate and ensure the reproducibility of specific analyses.
Developer of R Software
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
2021 - 2020
Over the years, many different regulatory networks and statistical algorithms have been developed, mostly in a fixed combination of one network and one algorithm. To systematically evaluate both networks and algorithms, we developed decoupleR, an R package that allows users to apply efficiently any combination provided.
Bioinformatician and Genomist
Centré de Regulació Genòmica
Barcelona, Spain
2019
- Differential expression analysis between the different conditions (e.g., deletions, overexpression, wild type) of transcriptional factors.
- Comparison of the expression profiles of genes regulated by transcriptional factors with the information available in E. coli gene regulation databases (e.g., RegulonDB).
Teaching Experience
Data Science Professor
Remote work
2022 - 2021
I worked on the complete design of the structure and content of the following courses, as well as effective entry blog writing and live classes for the Data Science Community.
- Jupyter Notebooks for Data Science Course (More than 10,700 students impacted).
- Advanced Customization of Environment for Data Science Course (More than 1,700 students impacted).
- Exploratory Data Analysis Methodology Course (Official release in September of 2022).
- Missing Data Detection for Data Science Course (Official release in September of 2022).
- Handling of Missing Data for Data Science Course (Official release in September of 2022).
Teaching Assistant of “Analysis of transcriptomic data of single cell (scRNA-seq) with R and Bioconductor.” Course
Bioinformatics Meeting in Mexico 2021
2021
- Provide support to students.
- Solve configurations of work environments.
- Guide discussions and exercises in breakout rooms.
Teaching Assistant of Linear Algebra Course
Center for Genomic Sciences
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
2020
- Monitoring of student performance accompanied by personalized and group tutorials.
- Review of assignments and exams.
Education and Training
Datacamp Inc.
Data Scientist Professional
2021
The following knowledge was assessed:
- Data Management
- Model Development
- Exploratory Analysis
- Coding for Production Environments
- Statistical Experimentation
- Communication and Reporting
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
B.S. in Genomic Sciences
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
2021 - 2017
Thesis: Bacterial filamentation: a bet for survival in stressful environments
Honors and Awards
Support Program for Research and Technological Innovation Projects (PAPIIT)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Mexico
2020
Program for Special Inter-institutional Cooperation Activities (PAECI)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Mexico
2019